About TradeBasis

TradeBasis is a Canadian B2B SaaS platform for vehicle appraisal and inventory acquisition. It gives automotive dealers accurate, trim-aware vehicle valuations built from live Canadian market listing data — not stale national guidebooks.

The problem it solves

When a dealer takes a trade-in or buys at auction, the difference between a good and a bad number is often a single trim level, a powertrain difference (ICE vs hybrid vs EV), or how long comparable units are actually sitting on the market in that province. Generic valuation guides are slow to update, are rarely granular enough at the trim level, and frequently lean on US data that does not reflect Canadian pricing, taxes, or regional demand.

TradeBasis closes that gap. It pulls real, current Canadian dealer listings, filters them down to a genuine like-for-like competitive set (correct trim, correct fuel type, correct year bracket, sensible distance), and turns that into a defensible market value and suggested offer.

What makes it different

• Trim-aware comparisons — a "Fetch Wide, Filter Smart" strategy scores and normalizes trims (including EV range variants and manufacturer-specific naming) so a base trim is not compared against a loaded one.
• Canadian-first — provincial-then-radius search, FSA-based real distance, and Canadian pricing throughout.
• Days-on-market intelligence — velocity (how fast comparable units sell) adjusts the recommended number, not just the raw average price.
• Risk awareness — mileage-variance warnings and suspicious-listing price alerts keep the comparison honest.

Who it's for

Independent and franchise dealers, used-car managers, and appraisers across Canada who acquire inventory and want real-time pricing intelligence at the desk.

Learn more

• Website: https://tradebasis.ca
• Research & insights: https://insights.tradebasis.ca

This is static, hand-maintained marketing content served via TradeBasis's public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It contains no customer data and performs no live lookups.

TradeBasis Pricing & Plans

TradeBasis offers two subscription tiers, both priced in Canadian dollars. Dealers who are new to TradeBasis typically start on Lite and upgrade to Pro later if they decide they need the full toolset.

Lite — $99/mo CAD

• Who it's for: a single appraiser or a small dealer who mainly needs fast, accurate trade-in numbers.
• Seats: 1 user.
• Core capability: the Quick Appraisal tool — VIN-first instant market valuation. Scan or enter a VIN, get a trim-aware Canadian market value backed by live comparable listings, with manual-entry fallback when a VIN can't be decoded.

Pro — $499/mo CAD

• Who it's for: a full dealership that acquires inventory actively and needs the complete toolset and a team.
• Seats: up to 5 users.
• Includes everything in Lite, plus:
  • Acquisition Workstation (locator) — a professional deal-builder with cascading search, Market Pulse, an arbitrage results table, and a comparison deck with saved decks.
  • Full appraisal worksheet with competitive-set display, trim-match indicators, mileage-risk warnings, and price alerts.
  • Inventory management — inventory table with key metrics, plus CSV import/export (bulk import with validation and VIN dedup).
  • Admin dashboard for monitoring.

How to choose

• Mostly pricing one car at a time at the desk? Lite.
• Running a buying operation, comparing multiple deals, managing inventory, or putting more than one person on the tool? Pro.

Notes

• Prices are in CAD and are kept in sync with the TradeBasis product by hand. Always confirm current pricing at https://tradebasis.ca before quoting.
• There is no free trial. New dealers typically begin on Lite and can upgrade to Pro at any time.

Static, hand-maintained content served via the TradeBasis MCP server.

What you can ask an AI assistant

Once connected, you can ask your AI assistant for any of the following, and it will pull the answer directly from TradeBasis:

• An overview of TradeBasis — what it is, the problem it solves, and who it's for.
• Plan & pricing details — what the Lite and Pro tiers include and which one fits a given dealership.
• Research briefs — short market and methodology reports authored by TradeBasis.

v1 serves static, hand-written information only — no live market data, VIN decode, appraisals, or customer data.

Connect an AI assistant

For Claude Desktop, add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tradebasis": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://tradebasis.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

To check it from a terminal (this lists what the assistant can retrieve):

curl -s https://tradebasis.ca/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

A plain browser visit (a GET request) shows this page; AI assistants talk to the same URL using HTTP POST.